Praveen tyagi biography for kids

CEO and Founder, EduIsFun Technologies (STEPapp) B.Tech from IIT-Delhi

Mr. Praveen Tyagi, is an educationist, a man with a vision to make quality education accessible
to even the remotest parts of India. Hailing from a modest background, he has come a long way
to become a reckoned name in the field of education. His contributions through Pace-IIT and
Medical, have been recognized and appreciated by IIT Bombay, the CBSE and top International
Universities such as Stanford, MIT, etc. His biography was featured in the book ‘My Life, My Rules:
Stories of 18 Unconventional Careers' by Sonia Golani.

After 20 years of leading students to elite institutions, his vision has now expanded to
strengthening the pillars of education in India. Through EduIsFun Technologies that he heads,
Mr. Praveen Tyagi has developed STEP(Student Talent Enhancement Program)app, a
revolutionary ed-tech product focused on gamification of learning. It goes beyond the barriers of
gender, economic class, and accessibility to make meritocracy democratic with a chance of
winning scholarships that are monetary and substantial enough to be a game-changer.

EARLY LIFE:
Mr. Tyagi comes from a village called Morta in Uttar Pradesh. He is the eldest amongst the 9
siblings. Despite being from a family whose primary occupation was farming, he and his siblings
were encouraged to study. With little academic support, he still pursued his dream and was
successfully enrolled into IIT-Delhi.
While at IIT-D, Mr. Tyagi discovered that he had a flair for teaching. It was a time when IIT
Coaching classes were flourishing across Delhi and North India. However, during a brief internship
at BARC in Mumbai towards the end of his third year at IIT- D, he realized that there was a serious
lack of good quality IIT coaching institutes in Mumbai. Quick to capitalize on the gap, after
graduating from IIT- Delhi, he headed straight to Mumbai, leading to the incorporation of PACE.

PACE- IIT &

Praveen Tyagi is the Mumbai-based managing director of PACE (estb.1999) and co-founder (with Jatin Solanki) and CEO of EduIsFun Technologies Pvt. Ltd (ETPL, estb.2015). Involved with Indian education for the past 22 years, Tyagi is the driving force behind PACE’s good track record in preparing school-leavers for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and medical colleges, which typically admit 2-3 percent of entrance exam toppers.

Moreover, after establishing 11 junior science colleges, 40 coaching institutes and a residential K-12 school, this energetic edupreneur is set to make waves in the edtech space. ETPL’s gamified learning STEP app (student, talent, enhancement programme application) provides personalised, interactive and adaptive gamified learning in maths and science mapped with the primary-secondary syllabuses of the pan-India CBSE, CISCE and several state boards including the Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination board.

Newspeg. The number of STEP app users has increased by 300,000 during the on-going schools lockdown period with 2 million downloads on Play Store and App store since it was launched last December. ETPL’s team of 400-plus highly qualified technologists are currently preparing course content to integrate social sciences and language subjects into STEP app after which it will be relaunched.

History. An alum of the top-ranked IIT-Delhi, Tyagi and IIT-Bombay grad Jatin Solanki co-promoted the first PACE test prep institute in 1997. In 2009, they pioneered the PACE concept of integrated junior college-cum-coaching class system to prepare students to write IITJEE and MCI (Medical Council of India) entrance exams — reputedly the toughest college entrance exams worldwide. This strategy of siting PACE prep classes within junior college premises has proved very successful, as they prepare students for competitive public entrance exams while meeting the college’s m

New Delhi: Spinal Muscular Atropy is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, which means an affected individual must have two defective copies of the disease causing gene. One copy of the defective gene is inherited from each parent. The disease that affects the control of muscle movement is caused by a mutation in survival motor neuron SMN1.

While there are many patients in India whose tales won’t be known to us but we have recently come across a story of New Delhi based child, Garvit who is suffering from the disease and needs financial help. As per his father, Mr Praveen Tyagi who desperately posted on facebook seeking government’s help in medical aid for his son, “My Life was very smooth and became lovely when I was blessed with a baby boy Garvit, We enjoyed every moment till he was 6 month old. He was then diagnosed with a non-curable disease called SMA. We were into a deep shock. Why me??. I left my job and sat in a depressed state for 1 yr at home. Since then we have struggled for 6 yrs now, in search of some cure.”

The family does not have any huge financial backup. Mr Tyagi adds further, “No financial and emotional support was another killer for us.” His only hope is the Sprinza developed by the United States-based biotech giant, Biogen, which has been developed after 10 years of research and is being claimed to cure the disease by upto 40 percent.  However, Mr Tyagi says that only 40 such families are known to him in India and in order to be heard by Indian government or in US, we need to explore atleast 1000 such families. “Kindly help us by sharing this message. Any one knowing any SMA patient kindly mail at praveentyagi.nie@gmail.com,” he mentions in his appeal to general public.

Biogen, which is licensing Spinraza from Ionis Pharmaceuticals, has been quoted in reports to have said that the one dose will have a list price of $125,000. That means the drug will cost $625,000 to $750,000 to cover